Living in the distant future, we have remarkable technology. More Memory, Storage, and Processing power than we could ever need, want, or imagine. We even have the graphics chips integrated directly onto the CPU with specs unfathomable 25 years ago.
And despite all this, the software has gotten slower. There are delays when clicking/opening different windows, panels, and interfaces.
I've had junk computers running Windows 98 and XP that ran snappier than modern systems. What a joke.
In 1998, as a Christmas present to myself, I built a computer that ran 4 Pentium II Xeon had 2 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA RIVA TNT video card.
No matter how well I build a new computer, nothing has ever worked faster than this machine.
The simplicity, lack of bloat, lack of hardware latency, lack of background process, no anti-virus overhead, smaller sites without Javascript and crap running, no "always on" services like DropBox, Cortina, etc, no abtract layers and backdoored encryption, and less spying by state and corporate actors...
1998 was the Golden Age for computers.
It's been all downhill ever since.
Back then, World of Warcraft 2, Age of Empires, Doom 2, Baldurs Gate, Starcraft... what more did you really need out of PC Gaming? Now its all microtransactions.
Other than AI, there has been no meaningful progress since 1998 despite our ,achines being orders of magnitude better.
If there was a corporate will to not be data raping you, your computer experiences would be far more productive and meaningful.
Instead, you're trapped in an electronic pile of shit.
MeyerLansky 5 points 17 hours ago
In 1998, as a Christmas present to myself, I built a computer that ran 4 Pentium II Xeon had 2 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA RIVA TNT video card.
No matter how well I build a new computer, nothing has ever worked faster than this machine.
The simplicity, lack of bloat, lack of hardware latency, lack of background process, no anti-virus overhead, smaller sites without Javascript and crap running, no "always on" services like DropBox, Cortina, etc, no abtract layers and backdoored encryption, and less spying by state and corporate actors...
1998 was the Golden Age for computers.
It's been all downhill ever since.
Back then, World of Warcraft 2, Age of Empires, Doom 2, Baldurs Gate, Starcraft... what more did you really need out of PC Gaming? Now its all microtransactions.
Other than AI, there has been no meaningful progress since 1998 despite our ,achines being orders of magnitude better.
If there was a corporate will to not be data raping you, your computer experiences would be far more productive and meaningful.
Instead, you're trapped in an electronic pile of shit.